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Believe in evidence-based decision making and careful analysis, not politics and panic.

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@AshleyBurkeCBC Sounds like a decent person, despite how the CBC portrays them all and their supporters. Nice to see you share this though.

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@_Wackadoo_ @jiggs_mcgraw @AshleyBurkeCBC Torture and held hostage? What complete nonsense and exaggeration.

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@JimConboy2 @anthony_beaulne @mferreriptbokaw There are no homes on Conventry Rd. The homes further away have their own streets to get out on. What rubbish.

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@davidpugliese Because there was no law to enforce. There is a reason they are calling it unlawful vs illegal, as there was nothing illegal. Feb 16th a judge even told them they had the right to continue their protest. Which law was the OPS then supposed to enforce?

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@kenruthrfrd @bdmbdmbdm @RebusReginald @jonkay I had read (can't confirm it) that those regs had been temporarily suspended for a while to allow them to do more hours due to the supply chain issues. Still don't agree with the tweet your replied to, but just letting you know

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@Yanky_Pollak @rupasubramanya @CandySero_ There are videos out there as well

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@masterofpupetz @TrueNorthCentre Trump was onto something when he went on about Fake News. The past two years have proven that.

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@Paul_Warburton9 @velopajaro @HullandTammie Actually, it isn't unlawful, it is outright illegal. In contrast, the protest wasn't illegal, it was unlawful. Semantics....

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@velopajaro Anybody know where this John Swyndon is from (if it is even a real name?). He should be included in police reports filed for this cybercrime. @OttawaPolice

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@velopajaro I was thinking the same thing when a friend sent it to me - the amount of support, even in downtown Ottawa. And most of those I know that supported the protestors didn't even donate, so there are many more supporters.

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@advertme7 @TheMarieOakes There are also laws against inciting hate, however the @OttawaPolice has no interest in pursuing these crimes.

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@Shaninagin @Shane_at_CP @TristinHopper And that couldn't happen again?

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@JohnPaolozzi @TrueNorthCentre "Honk" isn't even remotely German.... So one person on reddit said it a few years ago so must be true? Tried to find anything of substance in that link but didn't?

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@TorontoStar An Ontario court on Feb 16 reconfirmed the protestors rights to continue peaceful protest, so definitely not illegal. It is not the PM that decides on his own what is illegal and what isn't. "Unlawful" is something completely different, and that is why the Ottawa Police use that

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@Ingemar4910 @anthonyfurey Politics are making these decisions, not public health. Our medical officers of health are in appointed positions, after all, and subject to politics. That is why long-term public health consequences are being ignored in favour of short term virtue signaling.

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@paulmullin13 @anthonyfurey And he should be allowed to. My child with confirmed language delay issues due to masks shouldn't be forced to anymore.

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@John84448901 @GG37374104 Occupy Ottawa had a tent city in 2011 for around six weeks as well. Ottawa also had up to 30,000 Tamil protestors waving Tamil Tiger (terrorist) flags for two weeks in 2008. The difference is the truckers were having too much fun in the City that Fun Forgot.

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@ProudCdn123 @GG37374104 Not sure... Ils se souviennent, after all, of what happened in 1970 all too well

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@AlexpiersonAMP @MichaelChongMP Only problem is we need to then outlaw fireworks downtown on Canada Day and other holidays since they are such a threat ;) Pre-WFH times Wellington St was nothing but diesel fumes from lines of buses. I'll be honest that when I was downtown I did not notice the diesel.

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@SianMorris20 @AlexpiersonAMP @LeahGazan She is focusing on the "white supremist" red herring. There were no guns or violence downtown. An Ontario Supreme Court judge deemed the Ottawa protest legal on Feb 16th. But someone in Oshawa of course knows better what happened here, right? Obviously you were never there.